This grant was the second grant I submitted to help improve Bester's library collection. It consists of 15 books as well as posters and bookmarks. I knew as soon as I arrived at Bester and started using the library collection that it was lacking. All of the books in this collection were chosen to encourage young people to read and understand great literature while exploring themes in American history.
This was the second grant I wrote, but was the first one I was notified that I had received. I was very surprised. I will be adding the books to the library collection and promoting the books with the students and teachers as required by the grant.
Reflection - I will continue to apply for grants to improve the library and Bester. I will also be promoting the books from the grant program as required by the grant
We the People - Third Bookshelf Award Announcement Website
We the People Grant Announcement from Herald Mail Newspaper - 4/24/2006 - Becoming American
Kindergarten through 3rd Grade
* 
The Lotus Seed by Sherry
Garland
* 
Watch the Stars Come
Out by Riki Levinson
* 
Grandfather's Journey
by Allen Say
4th Grade through 6th Grade
*
Immigrant Kids by Russell
Freedman
* 
The People Could Fly:
African Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
* 
Rip Van Winkle by Washington
Irving
* 
In the Year of the Boar
and Jackie Robinson by Betty Bao Lord
7th Grade through 8th Grade
* 
Rifles for Watie by Harold
Keith
*
The Glory Field by Walter
Dean Myers
* 
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
*
Dragonwings by Laurence
Yep
9th Grade through 12th Grade
* 
Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
* 
Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin edited by Louis P. Masur
*
Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
* 
Giants in the Earth: A Saga
of the Prairie by Ole Edvart Rølvaag